At our December meetings we have a tradition at Skipton Stitchers that we make a Christmas card for a swop. I remembered Sunday afternoon that I needed a card for the meeting on Monday, so a quick make was needed.

Ever since our last meeting when we stitched scenes on used tea bags, I’ve had a dozen or so tea bags drying on the radiator in my sewing room – much to the amusement of my OH – he wisely decided not to comment! This was a perfect time to try another one.

I decided to do a Christmas tree on a snowy hill, so I gathered together little scraps of lace and some strange green fibrousy stuff which was perfect for the tree.

I stitched the lace in place and then stitched the tree on using tiny gold sequins left over from my bee. I made one sequin into a star on the top, added a trunk and my teabag was finished!

I’m pretty pleased with how it came out…

I’m still tempted to make a mini book of teabag scenes, I can’t decide whether to do a series of winter ones, maybe with the words of the Christmas carol, In a Bleak Midwinter, or maybe do a couple for each season. They’re fun to do as they’re only little and so don’t take long, you can use up the scrappiest scraps on them too!

For the first time this year we also had a Christmas challenge, members could bring a piece of embroidery finished this year and everyone else voted which one was their favourite. There were about a dozen entries, a huge variety of styles, I took my garden book in…and got first prize…I was well chuffed 🙂